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"This table wobbles!" said Charmian

"It does," said I, "but then I notice that the block is ain"

"Then why use a block?"

"A book is so clus to match the short

one?"

"That is really an excellent idea"

"Then why didn't you before?"

"Because, to be frank with you, it never occurred to me"

"I suppose you are better as a blacks I could find no ansorthy of

retort, she laughed, and, sitting doatched me while I took

s as she had

suggested Having done which, to our co, ent and sat down on the bench beside the

cottage door

"And--are you a very good blacksarda hammer or shoe a horse with any se, and he is the best in all the South

Country"

"And is that a very great achievement, Peter?"

"It is not a despicable one"

"Are you quite satisfied to be able to shoe horses well, sir?"